The Melting Cake!

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Episode 898
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Information

Title:

The Melting Cake!

Japanese title:

ケーキが溶けた！
(Kēki ga toketa!)

Original airdate:

April 7, 2018

Broadcast rating:

8.9%

Filler case number:

#291

Season:

27

Manga source:

TV Original

Case

Cast:

Conan Edogawa
Rei Furuya
Kogoro Mouri
Ran Mouri
Detective Boys
Azusa Enomoto
Ai Haibara
Hiroshi Agasa

Case solved by:

Conan Edogawa

Next Conan's Hint:

Electric kettle

Staff

Director:

Yasuichiro Yamamoto

Screenplay:

Takeharu Sakurai

Storyboard:

Yasuyuki Honda

Episode director:

Koichiro Kuroda

Animation director:

Michitaka Yamamoto, Shigenori Taniguchi

Voice cast:

Minami Takayama as Conan Edogawa
Tohru Furuya as Rei Furuya
Rikiya Koyama as Kogoro Mouri
Wakana Yamazaki as Ran Mouri
Yukiko Iwai as Ayumi Yoshida
Wataru Takagi as Genta Kojima
Ikue Otani as Mitsuhiko Tsuburaya
Mikiko Enomoto as Azusa Enomoto
Megumi Hayashibara as Ai Haibara
Kenichi Ogata as Hiroshi Agasa
Kanji Obana as Taxi Driver
Toshiya Chiba as Radio Voice

Music

Opening song:

"Everything OK!!"

Closing song:

"Kamikaze Express"

Zero the Enforcer pre-story

The Melting Cake! (ケーキが溶けた！ ,Kēki ga toketa!) is the 898th episode of the Detective Conan anime. This episode is a pre-story for Zero the Enforcer.

Gadgets introduced

Drone

Cast

Characters

Conan Edogawa

Rei Furuya

Kogoro Mouri

Ran Mouri

Ayumi Yoshida

Genta Kojima

Mitsuhiko Tsuburaya

Azusa Enomoto

Ai Haibara

Hiroshi Agasa

Gadgets

Gadgets

Drone

Detective Boys Badge

Case

Situation

Conan, Ran, and Kogoro go to Cafe Poirot in the morning for breakfast. Kogorō barges in before the shop actually opens causing Azusa to be angry. She, however, welcomes Ran and Conan to come in as well. Azusa uses IoT (Internet of Things) to control the electric kettle to boil water sometime before they reach the cafe. As they have breakfast, an issue seems to be happening with Amuro's cake. Last night when he prepared it, it was perfect but this morning it has melted. The Detective Boys call Conan using the Detective Badge informing him of the Professor's latest invention, a drone. While the communication is taking place, the rotors of the drone suddenly start spinning and it flies and crashes into the roof causing Agasa to be disappointed. He goes inside to fix the drone. Conan witnesses the panic on the other side.

The electrician is called for fixing the refrigerator but he claims that there is nothing wrong with it. Ayumi after eating the cake runs to a nearby restaurant which sells cakes suspiciously similar to Amuro's, but taste completely different with Amuro's being more delicious. The Detective Boys claim that someone in the restaurant probably ruined Amuro's cake to make their sales bigger. Conan, drove by his own curiosity as well as the Detective Boys persuasion, installs his phone to record footage of Cafe Poirot during the night. Nothing suspicious is seen in the footage.

Azusa says that the cake only melts two out of every three days. Conan continues to capture footage and finds that the days the cake melted corresponds to a car passing by the cafe the night before, of which the reflection is seen in the windows of the cafe but the inside of the cafe can not be seen.

People

Man #1
	Beika Electric employee

Man #2
	Teiko Transit taxi driver

Resolution

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The culprit's face revealed

Conan explains the phenomenon of the cake melting by the concept of wave interference. The taxi that passed by the cafe used radio waves which had the same frequency as used by the electric kettle, which caused the kettle to boil the water in it and emit steam near the refrigerator air inlet vent. This caused the hot air to enter the refrigerator thereby melting the cake. This was also the reason why they couldn't see the inside of the cafe through the glass during the days the cake had melted due to the water vapour sticking to the interior surface of the glass. Coincidentally, this was also the reason Agasa's drone started flying by itself because the frequency of the Detective Badge used by Mitshuiko to communicate with Conan was the same as the radio wave frequency used by the drone to communicate with it's remote controller.

When he said that he already has a plan to solve the problem, Amuro originally planned to make the cake such that it wouldn't require refrigeration instead of solving the mystery of the melting of the cake. He finally succeeds in his attempt by half-baking the cake and putting the frosting of cream and yogurt and fruit on top of it before serving, which is greatly complimented by everyone including Conan.

Kogoro exclaims that he forgot the real reason he returned to the cafe. He hands out a government-issued notice. Some of the roads will be closed temporarily due to the event of Tokyo Summit being held on May 1st. Amuro has also taken leave from Cafe Poirot for that day. Conan says that after all, he wasn't disregarding his duty as a Public Service Officer.

Conan's final words are: "At that time, I had no idea the Amuro, who was enjoying baking cakes over solving cases, would do something like that." This hints towards the plot of movie 22 where Amuro seemingly turns against Conan. The final scene shows a lighthouse emitting light beams with the city in the background.

Trivia

• This is the second TV original episode after The Shadow Approaching Amuro to feature Bourbon.
• The episode's scripwriter, Takeharu Sakurai, stated in an interview that the anime production team requested that the episode only be about food, and contain no murder. This was also the case for Sakurai's last two filler episodes movies' prologue, The Missing Sweets in the Old Shop and The Shadow Approaching Amuro. Munch's Missing Scream being the only exception.
• The taxi from Teiko Transit car 227 is a 1991 black Toyota Crown Sedan. The license plate number is 新宿 530, い 05-03 (Shinjuku 530, I 05-03).
• This episode was included in the extra DVD of Zero the Enforcer.

Gallery

• Episode preview title card
  Episode preview title card
• Journal about Tokyo Summit
  Journal about Tokyo Summit
• File:Ep898group.jpg

In other languages

Language	Title	Translation
Vietnamese	Bánh kem đã tan chảy rồi!

See also

• Season 27
• Zero the Enforcer

Detective Conan Movies
Regular Movies	Movie 01: The Time-Bombed Skyscraper • Movie 02: The Fourteenth Target • Movie 03: The Last Wizard of the Century • Movie 04: Captured in Her Eyes • Movie 05: Countdown to Heaven • Movie 06: The Phantom of Baker Street • Movie 07: Crossroad in the Ancient Capital • Movie 08: Magician of the Silver Sky • Movie 09: Strategy Above the Depths • Movie 10: The Private Eyes' Requiem • Movie 11: Jolly Roger in the Deep Azure • Movie 12: Full Score of Fear • Movie 13: The Raven Chaser • Movie 14: The Lost Ship in the Sky • Movie 15: Quarter of Silence • Movie 16: The Eleventh Striker • Movie 17: Private Eye in the Distant Sea • Movie 18: Dimensional Sniper • Movie 19: Sunflowers of Inferno • Movie 20: The Darkest Nightmare • Movie 21: The Crimson Love Letter • Movie 22: Zero the Enforcer • Movie 23: The Fist of Blue Sapphire • Movie 24: The Scarlet Bullet • Movie 25: The Bride of Halloween • Movie 26: Black Iron Submarine • Movie 27: The Million-dollar Pentagram • Movie 28: One-eyed Flashback • Movie 29: Fallen Angel of the Highway • Movie 30
Crossover Movies	Lupin III vs. Detective Conan: The Movie
Compilation Movies	The Scarlet Alibi • The Story of Ai Haibara ~Black Iron Mystery Train~ • Detective Conan vs. Kid the Phantom Thief
3D Movies	Conan vs. Kid: Shark & Jewel • Conan vs. Kid: The Pitch-Black Sniper
Related media	16 Suspects!? (Movie 4) • Conan, Heiji, and the Vanished Boy (Movie 7) • Conan, Kid, and the Crystal Mother (Movie 8) • A Challenge from Agasa! Agasa vs. Conan and the Detective Boys (Movie 11) • Magic File 2: Shinichi Kudo, The Case of the Mysterious Wall and the Black Lab (Movie 12) • Lupin III vs. Detective Conan (Crossover) • Magic File 3: Shinichi and Ran, Memories of Mahjong Tiles and Tanabata (Movie 13) • Magic File 4: The Osaka Okonomiyaki Odyssey (Movie 14) • Magic File 5: Niigata~Tokyo Souvenir Capriccio (Movie 15) • Bonus File 1: Flower of Fantasista (Movie 16) • Promise with a J-Leaguer (Movie 16) • The J League Bodyguard (Movie 16) • Behind the Scenes of the J League Finals (Movie 16) • The Missing Sweets in the Old Shop (Movie 17) • The Coded Invitation (Movie 18) • Munch's Missing Scream (Movie 19) • The Shadow Approaching Amuro (Movie 20) • The Mystery of the Vanished Black Belt (Movie 21) • The Melting Cake! (Movie 22) • Intrigue at the Food Court (Movie 23) • The Beika City Shopping Center Garbage Bin Mystery (Movie 24) • The Flying Jack-o'-lantern (Movie 25) • The Cameras Targeting Haibara (Movie 26) • Mystery of the Lost Treasure (Movie 27) • The Secret's Afterimage (Movie 28) • The Cosplay Rider of the Wind (Movie 29)
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